334 claims · page 3 of 4
| Verdict | Person | Kind | Said | Claim | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 15 Apr 2021 | In 1997 Amazon had not yet invented Prime, Marketplace, Alexa or AWS. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 15 Apr 2021 | Amazon hired 500,000 employees in 2020 and now directly employs 1.3 million people worldwide. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 15 Apr 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 22 Mar 2021 | Ray Dalio has systemized his definition of a bubble into a "bubble indicator" that he monitors for each market. Ray Dalio · Factual · 22 Mar 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Scott Alexander | Factual | 14 Feb 2021 | Scott Alexander has never personally been involved in the tech industry. Scott Alexander · Factual · 14 Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | The Gates Foundation has worked with manufacturers and partners to deliver vaccines cheaply at large scale, including to 822 million children in low-income countries through Gavi. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | Feb 2021 | COVID-19 was not the Gates Foundation's sole focus in 2020; it continued work across its other program areas. Bill Gates · Factual · Feb 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Guidance | 27 Jan 2021 | Tesla may track to growth of a fair bit above 50% in 2021, though it does not commit to it. Elon Musk · Guidance · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Elon Musk | Promise | 27 Jan 2021 | Musk said Tesla was confident it would have excellent integration between Powerwall and Tesla Solar (retrofit and roof) before the end of 2021. Elon Musk · Promise · 27 Jan 2021 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 15 Dec 2020 | Buffett said he attended the first graduation of the Small Business Program, which he credited to Goldman Sachs, at LaGuardia Community College about 10 years before he spoke in December 2020. Warren Buffett · Factual · 15 Dec 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Factual | 25 Nov 2020 | On 2020-11-25, Musk described a launch as a "life leader launch", saying it carried more risk than normal. Elon Musk · Factual · 25 Nov 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper's compensation package follows Ørsted's remuneration policy and includes a fixed base salary of DKK 15 million, which also covers pension contribution. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | 9 Sep 2020 | Mads Nipper's package includes an annual cash-based variable remuneration of 0-30% of annual fixed salary with a 15% target, and long-term share-based remuneration with a target of 20% of annual fixed salary. Ørsted · Factual · 9 Sep 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 17 Jun 2020 | Tyler Cowen conducted a Conversations with Tyler interview with Rachel Harmon, released by 17 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 17 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 5 Jun 2020 | Emergent Ventures announced its ninth cohort of winners by 5 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 5 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 3 Jun 2020 | Tyler Cowen conducted a Conversations with Tyler interview with Ashley Mears, released by 3 June 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 3 Jun 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | As of 28 May 2020, GiveWell had made three grants for COVID-19 mitigation. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | GiveWell | Factual | 28 May 2020 | Dispensers for Safe Water is a GiveWell standout charity. GiveWell · Factual · 28 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 20 May 2020 | Tyler Cowen held a second Conversations with Tyler interview with Paul Romer, released by 20 May 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 20 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 19 May 2020 | Ray Dalio and his wife, in agreement with Governor Lamont, are terminating their partnership with the State of Connecticut to help disengaged students through high school and into jobs. Ray Dalio · Factual · 19 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 15 May 2020 | Tyler Cowen co-authored a piece with Garry Kasparov, published by May 2020. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 15 May 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 30 Apr 2020 | In April 2020 Microsoft Teams saw more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 30 Apr 2020 | Microsoft has made GitHub's core features free for teams of any size for the first time. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 30 Apr 2020 | As of April 2020 Microsoft Teams had more than 75 million daily active users, two thirds of whom shared, collaborated or interacted with files on Teams. Satya Nadella · Factual · 30 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Marc Andreessen | Prediction | 18 Apr 2020 | The essay "It's Time to Build" will be the target of criticism. Marc Andreessen · Prediction · 18 Apr 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 12 Mar 2020 | The newest lecture in Gen Ed 1066, Rationality, is titled Social and Political Bias. Steven Pinker · Factual · 12 Mar 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Demis Hassabis | Factual | 12 Feb 2020 | Demis Hassabis received the 2020 Dan David Prize Future Award alongside Prof. Amnon Shashua. Demis Hassabis · Factual · 12 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | 10 Feb 2020 | The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was started 20 years before 2020. Bill Gates · Factual · 10 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | 10 Feb 2020 | Gates said that "we" had known for a while that they wanted to give away the majority of their wealth from Microsoft and use it to make people's lives better. Bill Gates · Factual · 10 Feb 2020 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 27 Dec 2019 | Pinker took on an assignment from the Financial Times to write about what to expect from the 2020s for its end-of-year issue. Steven Pinker · Factual · 27 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Nouriel Roubini | Factual | 27 Dec 2019 | The latest issue of CIRSD's Horizons magazine includes Roubini's article "The Specter of Deglobalization and the Thucydides Trap". Nouriel Roubini · Factual · 27 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Steven Pinker wrote a guest post titled 'NIPS vs. NeurIPS' on Scott Aaronson's blog Shtetl-Optimized. Steven Pinker · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Most podcasts do not offer a transcript. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 23 Dec 2019 | Tyler Cowen first went to China about 30 years before 2019 and has been there many times since. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 23 Dec 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Gary Marcus | Factual | 14 Nov 2019 | Gary Marcus wrote a book called The Birth of the Mind about how a small number of genes builds a complex brain. Gary Marcus · Factual · 14 Nov 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Nate Silver | Factual | 23 Sep 2019 | Bernie Sanders polled at 11% in the highest-quality poll of Iowa released the weekend of 2019-09-21/22. Nate Silver · Factual · 23 Sep 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 18 Jul 2019 | Tyler Cowen's book Markets and Cultural Voices was published about 15 years before 2019. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 18 Jul 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Tyler Cowen | Factual | 18 Jul 2019 | Tyler Cowen uses his blog as his main method of social networking. Tyler Cowen · Factual · 18 Jul 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Vinod Khosla | Factual | 13 Jun 2019 | Vinod Khosla specifically said earlier that we would have music personalized to each person. Vinod Khosla · Factual · 13 Jun 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | 29 May 2019 | Bill Gates recently sat down for a conversation with author Jared Diamond. Bill Gates · Factual · 29 May 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | 10 May 2019 | Melinda Gates asked Bill Gates to introduce her at her Moment of Lift book tour stop in Seattle on 2019-05-10. Bill Gates · Factual · 10 May 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 29 Apr 2019 | Satya Nadella appeared at Dell Tech World with Michael Dell and Pat Gelsinger. Satya Nadella · Factual · 29 Apr 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 7 Feb 2019 | Jeff Bezos has written a post about developments with the National Enquirer and its parent company, AMI. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 7 Feb 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Scott Alexander | Promise | 22 Jan 2019 | Scott Alexander will post his 2019 predictions later in the week of 22 January 2019. Scott Alexander · Promise · 22 Jan 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 9 Jan 2019 | Sam Altman spoke with Vinod Khosla in an interview or conversation published in January 2019. Sam Altman · Factual · 9 Jan 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 5 Jan 2019 | Sam Altman made a bet almost four years before January 2019. Sam Altman · Factual · 5 Jan 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 2 Jan 2019 | Mike George, former Alexa VP and long-time Amazon employee, has agreed to lead the Day 1 Academies Fund. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 2 Jan 2019 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 11 Nov 2018 | The template section of Dalio's book on financial crises is 60 pages long. Ray Dalio · Factual · 11 Nov 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 20 Sep 2018 | No single person invented Amazon's Echo with Alexa; it was a team invention. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 20 Sep 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 20 Sep 2018 | Amazon distinguishes two types of decisions, including reversible "two-way doors". Jeff Bezos · Factual · 20 Sep 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Jeff Bezos | Factual | 20 Sep 2018 | Amazon's Echo speaker with Alexa was an invention that no customer asked for. Jeff Bezos · Factual · 20 Sep 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Promise | 7 Sep 2018 | Tesla is bringing out a new solar roof product whose tiles have solar cells embedded in them. Elon Musk · Promise · 7 Sep 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 15 Jul 2018 | In 1977 Rodney Brooks joined the Hand-Eye group at the Stanford AI Laboratory, working on vision for his PhD. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 15 Jul 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 11 Apr 2018 | Taleb's Incerto is so far a five-volume investigation of luck, randomness and decision making under opacity. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 11 Apr 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Nassim Taleb | Factual | 11 Apr 2018 | Skin in the Game is the last volume of Taleb's Incerto series. Nassim Taleb · Factual · 11 Apr 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Scott Alexander | Prediction | 15 Feb 2018 | Scott Alexander gave a 90% probability that he would remember and publicly grade these predictions sometime in 2023. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 15 Feb 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Steven Pinker | Factual | 13 Feb 2018 | Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now was a follow-up to his book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Steven Pinker · Factual · 13 Feb 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 1 Feb 2018 | Ray Dalio made a 30-minute video called How the Economic Machine Works, available on YouTube. Ray Dalio · Factual · 1 Feb 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2018 | Ørsted's Wind Power EBITDA increased by 74% to DKK 20.6 billion in 2017. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2018 | Ørsted's return on capital employed rose to 25% in 2017 from 17% in 2016, disregarding DKK 4.3 billion of non-recurring gas contract income in 2016. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Prediction | Feb 2018 | Ørsted expects to farm down 50% of Hornsea 1 either in H2 2018 or in 2019. Ørsted · Prediction · Feb 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Marc Andreessen | Factual | 1 Jan 2018 | Andreessen Horowitz has since reversed course almost completely and is now deeply invested in healthcare. Marc Andreessen · Factual · 1 Jan 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 1 Jan 2018 | Rodney Brooks previously identified underestimating adoption time of new technologies as the seventh of seven deadly sins of predicting the future of AI. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 1 Jan 2018 | In the months before January 2018, Rodney Brooks publicly criticised what he considers hype around AI and machine learning. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Rodney Brooks | Factual | 1 Jan 2018 | Rodney Brooks has worked in both Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for over forty years. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 1 Jan 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | GiveWell | Factual | 2018 | In 2016 GiveWell saw growth in the number of donors and amount donated in every donor size category reviewed, except donors giving $1 million or more per year. GiveWell · Factual · 2018 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | Oct 2017 | Satya Nadella was a developer at Sun Microsystems, which he joined in 1990. Satya Nadella · Factual · Oct 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 12 Sep 2017 | Ray Dalio started going to China in 1984. Ray Dalio · Factual · 12 Sep 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 12 Sep 2017 | In the 1980s Dalio was wrong in expecting the worst economic conditions. Ray Dalio · Factual · 12 Sep 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ray Dalio | Factual | 12 Sep 2017 | Dalio said he was told that his process of being radically truthful was hurting people's morale. Ray Dalio · Factual · 12 Sep 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | Dario Amodei's PhD was not in machine learning. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Dario Amodei | Factual | 21 Jul 2017 | OpenAI is a nonprofit AI research lab. Dario Amodei · Factual · 21 Jul 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Warren Buffett | Promise | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire will run the same NCAA bracket contest among its employees in 2017 as it did in 2016. Warren Buffett · Promise · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire closed its purchase of $3 billion of Dow Chemical preferred stock in April 2009, when the market had collapsed. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 27 Feb 2017 | Berkshire's US Air preferred stock had a clause under which unpaid dividends compounded at a good rate. Warren Buffett · Factual · 27 Feb 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | YC Continuity is YC's growth-stage fund. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | In 2016 about 22.3% of companies YC funded had a woman on the founding team and about 12.5% of founders funded were women. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | In 2016, YC funded 68 female founders at 52 companies. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | YC invested about $27 million in its Winter and Summer 2016 batches and about $187 million so far in later-stage investments from its first Continuity fund. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | 1 Jan 2017 | As of January 1, 2017, Y Combinator had funded over 3,200 founders and 1,470 companies. Sam Altman · Factual · 1 Jan 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Ørsted | Promise | 2017 | DONG Energy's target is that 60% of the biomass it buys during 2017 will be certified as sustainable. Ørsted · Promise · 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | 2017 | DONG Energy was listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen on 9 June 2016, the biggest IPO in Danish history. Ørsted · Factual · 2017 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Yann LeCun | Factual | 28 Jul 2016 | Yann LeCun gave a recent series of 8 lectures on deep learning at Collège de France in Paris. Yann LeCun · Factual · 28 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Peter Thiel | Factual | 21 Jul 2016 | Thiel does not agree with every plan in the Republican Party's platform. Peter Thiel · Factual · 21 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Warren Buffett | Factual | 21 Jul 2016 | When Buffett gives away his Berkshire shares, he always converts the Class A voting stock into Class B stock first. Warren Buffett · Factual · 21 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Peter Thiel | Factual | 21 Jul 2016 | Neither Peter Thiel nor Donald Trump is a politician. Peter Thiel · Factual · 21 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Peter Thiel | Factual | 21 Jul 2016 | Peter Thiel builds companies and supports people building new things, from social networks to rocket ships. Peter Thiel · Factual · 21 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Prediction | 20 Jul 2016 | Tesla Autopilot miles will soon exceed twice 89 million miles, i.e. over 178 million miles. Elon Musk · Prediction · 20 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Promise | 20 Jul 2016 | In cities where demand exceeds the supply of customer-owned cars, Tesla will operate its own ride-hailing fleet. Elon Musk · Promise · 20 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Promise | 20 Jul 2016 | Tesla plans to address most of the consumer vehicle market with the Model 3, a future compact SUV and a new kind of pickup truck. Elon Musk · Promise · 20 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Elon Musk | Prediction | 20 Jul 2016 | Refinement and validation of self-driving software will take much longer than installing the cameras, radar, sonar and computing hardware. Elon Musk · Prediction · 20 Jul 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Sam Altman | Factual | Jun 2016 | In his first blog post on Trump, in June 2016, Sam Altman said it would be a good time for everyone to start speaking up. Sam Altman · Factual · Jun 2016 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | 2015 | The UN agreed on a set of development goals once before, in 2000, and the authors call it one of the best ideas for development either of them has ever seen; they say it focused the world on key measures of basics such as good health and a chance to get an education. Bill Gates · Factual · 2015 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Bill Gates | Factual | 2015 | Bill and Melinda Gates wrote the 2015 Annual Letter about what the future holds. Bill Gates · Factual · 2015 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | GiveWell | Factual | 2015 | In 2014, GiveWell recommended and Good Ventures made two grants: $250,000 to Evidence Action and about $34,000 to IDinsight. GiveWell · Factual · 2015 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Rodney Brooks | Promise | 16 Dec 2014 | Starting in 2015, Rethink Robotics will provide APIs allowing developers to improve Baxter. Rodney Brooks · Promise · 16 Dec 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Scott Alexander | Factual | 30 Sep 2014 | Scott Alexander is a psychiatrist by profession. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Delivered on time | Satya Nadella | Promise | 10 Jul 2014 | During July 2014, Nadella and Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team will share more about the engineering and organization changes they believe are needed. Satya Nadella · Promise · 10 Jul 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Satya Nadella | Factual | 3 Mar 2014 | Tony Bates joined Microsoft through the Skype acquisition, where he was Skype CEO, and later led Microsoft's Business Development and Evangelism team. Satya Nadella · Factual · 3 Mar 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | The DONG Energy Group generated DKK 73 billion (EUR 9.8 billion) in revenue in 2013. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
| Resolved true | Ørsted | Factual | Feb 2014 | DONG Energy's net investments were DKK 5.9 billion in 2013, compared with DKK 13.4 billion in 2012. Ørsted · Factual · Feb 2014 | Their own work or organisation |
“In 1997, we hadn’t invented Prime, Marketplace, Alexa, or AWS.”
Jeff Bezos, Amazon Chair, shareholder letter 15 April 2021 2020 Letter to Shareholders (About Amazon)
In 1997 Amazon had not yet invented Prime, Marketplace, Alexa or AWS.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
The evidence is the person's or their organisation's own records.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
True: Amazon's launch dates for Prime, its third-party Marketplace (including predecessors such as Auctions and zShops), the Alexa voice assistant and AWS all fall after 1997. Mostly true: all four came after 1997 except for a minor caveat, such as an early internal precursor of one product. Mixed: one or two of the four existed at Amazon by 1997. False: most or all of them existed at Amazon in 1997. Alexa Internet, the unrelated web-analytics company Amazon bought in 1999, does not count as Amazon's Alexa.
Evidence
- Amazon.com Celebrates Fifth Anniversary; Timeline Illustrates Milestones and Little Known Facts About Leading Online Retailer's First Five Years Amazon.com (press.aboutamazon.com) · 12 July 2000 Own record
“September 1999 -- Amazon zShops launches, enabling anyone to offer merchandise”
- Amazon.com Celebrates Fifth Anniversary; Timeline Illustrates Milestones and Little Known Facts About Leading Online Retailer's First Five Years Amazon.com (press.aboutamazon.com) · 12 July 2000 Own record
“March 1999 -- Amazon Auctions opens, bringing virtual, gavel-dropping fun to”
- Last update: 6/19/2006 Author: SCCI File: Timeline History Q1 ... Amazon.com Investor Relations (media.corporate-ir.net) · 19 June 2006 Own record
“2002 Launches Marketplace”
- Last update: 6/19/2006 Author: SCCI File: Timeline History Q1 ... Amazon.com Investor Relations (media.corporate-ir.net) · 19 June 2006 Own record
“2003 Launches Amazon Web Services”
- Amazon.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Amazon.com, Inc.)
“Amazon.com had no revenue for this segment in 1997.”
- Amazon.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Amazon.com, Inc.)
“Searching. A primary feature of Amazon.com Web sites is their interactive, searchable catalogs of millions of books, music products, DVD/videos, toys, electronics, software, video games and home improvement products.”
- Amazon.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Amazon.com, Inc.)
“On May 15, 1997, the Company completed an initial public offering of 18 million shares of its common stock.”
- Amazon.com Announces Record Free Cash Flow Fueled by Lower Prices and Free Shipping; Introduces New Express Shipping Program -- Amazon Prime Amazon.com, Inc. (press.aboutamazon.com) · 2 February 2005 Own record
“Today the Company also introduced "Amazon Prime," Amazon.com's first ever membership program.”
- Alexa at five: Looking back, looking forward Amazon Science · 6 November 2019 Own record
“on November 6, 2014, a small multidisciplinary team launched Amazon Echo, with the aspiration of revolutionizing daily convenience for our customers using artificial intelligence (AI).”
- Amazon.com Launches Three Innovations to Advance E-Commerce for Shoppers, Sellers Amazon.com, Inc. (press.aboutamazon.com) · 30 September 1999 Own record
“Amazon.com zShops is a new place on the Amazon.com site (www.amazon.com) where any seller can establish an online store, thus overcoming the distribution barriers”
- Amazon.com Launches Three Innovations to Advance E-Commerce for Shoppers, Sellers Amazon.com, Inc. (press.aboutamazon.com) · 30 September 1999 Own record
“Items are clearly and conveniently arranged as being available at Amazon.com, Amazon.com zShops, Amazon.com Auctions, and other online merchants.”
Reasoning
The claim resolves true: Amazon's own official records date all four products after 1997. Its timeline and a 1999 press release put Amazon Auctions in March 1999 and zShops in September 1999, the Marketplace predecessors the criteria name (E1, E2, E10). A dated 2005 press release announced Amazon Prime as the company's first membership program (E8), and Amazon's 2019 Alexa retrospective dates the Echo/Alexa launch to November 6, 2014 (E9). Amazon's investor-relations timeline lists a 2003 Amazon Web Services launch (E4).
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “In 1997 Amazon had not yet invented Prime, Marketplace, Alexa or AWS.” (said 15 April 2021). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_d279d7e1eb18, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_d279d7e1eb18
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